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When the turn of the century rolled around, we all bemoaned the lack of hovercrafts while full-well knowing we had them – they just weren’t futuristic enough for us yet.Hovercrafts are unique in that they have one foot firmly in the real world while the other is totally in the world of science fiction. Renegade’s IQ hovercraft is one of the more accessible versions available today, and while they’re no Jetson’s hovercraft, they sure are fast and fun as hell.

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Why complaining about the MBTA becomes a favorite Boston pastime , mostly because there isn't an alternative,but also because it's miserable and always crowded and never on time. However, a reinvigorated effort focusing on the Boston waterfront could be changing all that.

“When people look to come to a destination, one of the top things they look at is a transportation network,” James Folk, the director of transportation for the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, told the Boston Globe. “Right now, that’s lacking a little bit, and we’re hoping this piece will help.”

A new app could do the trick that you could do more to help migrants without joining a humanitarian group. The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS)'s I Sea iOS app lets you scour satellite images to spot refugee boats in trouble and alert rescue teams to their location.

The idea is so simple that no one has thought of it before. The app doesn't make clear how long you have to monitor your assigned patch, though.The app takes satellite images of search and rescue team routes, divides them into millions of small plots and assigns them to users to monitor.

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A new app could do the trick that you could do more to help migrants without joining a humanitarian group. The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS)'s I Sea iOS app lets you scour satellite images to spot refugee boats in trouble and alert rescue teams to their location.

The idea is so simple that no one has thought of it before. The app doesn't make clear how long you have to monitor your assigned patch, though.The app takes satellite images of search and rescue team routes, divides them into millions of small plots and assigns them to users to monitor.

A giant Chinese container ship has become the first voyage to move from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean via the newly-enlarged Panama Canal.People gathered together at the Cocoli locks to celebrate this good news with fireworks and cheers.

Juan Carlos Varela,the Panamanian President, regarded this waterway as a route that would unite the world.

The president thanked the nearly 30,000 people who had worked on the canal's expansion.

Construction on the new lane for the canal, which runs for 77km (48 miles), began in 2007 and was due to finish in 2014.